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Almost six months after the initial launch, Samsung is expanding its Self-healing program to include five new recoverable devices.
Join people like the Galaxy S20 and the Tab S7 Plus are the Galaxy Book Pro 15 inch laptop, Galaxy Book Pro 360 15-inch laptop and the Galaxy S22 line with the basic modelthe S22+and the S22 Ultra.
Samsung continues to work with iFixit to provide the repair kits, which are currently on sale, though prices are unknown at the time of writing. We can at least look at the prices for the older kits in the self-repair program to get an idea of what users can expect. For example, replacing the charging port on a phone from the S20 or S21 line costs $66.99. Speculation aside, pricing for the new additions will be available once the respective repair kit pages go live.
Step-by-step how-to guides will be available on the iFixit website.
Repair kit contents
The contents of the kits differ between smartphones and laptops, with the latter receiving more spare parts. Galaxy Book Pro owners can replace both the front and back of the case, battery, screen, touchpad, power key including fingerprint reader, and rubber feet under the device. For the S22 phones, the repair kits are similar to those for the S20 and S21. They have replacements for the display, back glass and charging ports, but not for the battery, which is odd considering you could do that on the older phones.
In addition to the missing battery replacement, there are two other glaring omissions in the updated program: you can’t repair the 15.6-inch models of both the Galaxy Book Pro and Pro 360; anyway at the time of writing. We’ve reached out to Samsung about the larger Galaxy Book models and asked several other questions, such as whether users can replace the battery on an S22 phone or if it’s part of a future update.
And what about a return label? The older kits came with a free return label so you can return old parts to Samsung for proper disposal. This story will be updated as we hear the missing information.
It may also interest you to know that Apple recently performed an update its own self-repair program to now include Mac computers powered by the M1 chip and the Studio Display. Be aware that the prices may make your eyes water. Replacing just the screen on the Studio Display will run you close to $1000.